Efficient Zero-shot Event Extraction with Context-Definition Alignment (2022.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Conventional supervised methods cannot generalize to event types out of the pre-defined ontology. |
| Approach: | They propose to use two separate transformer models to model the definition semantics of an event type name into the same embedding space and then minimize their embeddable distance via contrastive learning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model outperforms all previous zero-shot EE methods with fast inference speed due to the disjoint design. |
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